The earliest form of cameras, known as camera obscura, was invented by an Iraqi scientist Ibn al-Haytham in 1021 when he wrote his Book of Optics. It used a pinhole or lens to project light from the outside of a box or room onto the opposite interior wall. Images could then be traced, as a suitable way to make and develop films was not invented until the 1800s. Continue Reading

Q: What’s the oldest photograph in the world? – Troy K. from Seattle, Wash.

A: Modern photography began in the 1820s, and the oldest surviving photograph known was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, a Frenchman who has been called the inventor of photography. It was taken in 1825 of a engraving of a young boy leading a horse.  Continue Reading